Test Bank for Abnormal Psychology Perspectives 4th
Canadian Edition
Chapter 1 - Concepts of Abnormality throughout History
Multiple Choice Questions:
1) Your housemate has been overly concerned with keeping the kitchen clean. In fact, he
scrubs the sinks and counters for half an hour each time someone puts something on them.
In order to determine his diagnosis, a nurse in North America would be most likely to
consult the
A) American Medical Association's Treatment Manual (AMA-TM).
B) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, fourth edition (DSM-IV-TR).
C) International Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders (ICD-10).
D) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, sixth edition (DSM-VI).
E) The North American Guide to Psychiatric Disorders (NAPD-IV).
ANS: B
Diff: 1 Type: MC Page Ref: 2
Skill: Application
2) Psychopathology refers to
A) the same disorder as psychopathy.
B) disorders of the brain.
C) a physical cause to psychological problems.
D) only severe psychological disorders.
E) the study of the nature of psychological problems.
ANS: E
Diff: 2 Type: MC Page Ref: 4
Skill: Factual
3) According to the text, behavior, speech or thought that impairs a person’s functioning
corresponds best to which concept below?
A) mental illness
B) mental problem
C) brain pathology
D) psychological abnormality .
E) psychological disorder
ANS: D
Diff: 2 Type: MC Page Ref: 4
Skill: Conceptual
4) What is one difficulty in defining abnormal behaviour?
A) eccentric behaviour usually indicates abnormal behaviour
B) everyone is to some degree abnormal in their behaviour
C) unusual behaviour may not be abnormal according to diagnostic criteria
D) all people experience anxiety now and then
E) people's behaviour depends on the situation
,ANS: C
Diff: 1 Type: MC Page Ref: 4
Skill: Factual
5) Abnormal behaviour has been defined as that which occurs infrequently. Which of the
following examples illustrates a problem with this definition?
A) People with IQs below 70 are considered abnormal.
B) Most people get depressed from time to time.
C) Mathematical geniuses are considered rare in the population.
D) Children often believe in the existence of monsters.
E) Anxiety disorders are relatively rare in a given population.
ANS: C
Diff: 2 Type: MC Page Ref: 4
Skill: Application
6) Dr. Jayvonna is working with a patient who has to arrange and rearrange her food on her
plate after each bite. Although her patient does not find this behaviour strange, other people
find it odd. The definition of abnormality applicable to this patient is
A) statistically unusual behaviour.
B) violating the norms of society.
C) distress to self and others.
D) personal dysfunction.
E) expert diagnosis
ANS: B
Diff: 1 Type: MC Page Ref: 6
Skill: Application
7) Perhaps the biggest problem with using inappropriate behaviour as a criterion for
abnormal behaviour is
A) what is considered appropriate differs over time and location.
B) mentally ill people are usually not dangerous.
C) social norms tend to be constant over time.
D) inappropriate behaviour is often the norm in North American culture.
E) killers and murderers are generally sane.
ANS: A
Diff: 2 Type: MC Page Ref: 6
Skill: Conceptual
8) The authors discuss the Violation of Cultural Norms criterion as:
A) an essential and sufficient component in defining psychological abnormality
B) a necessary but not sufficient component of defining abnormality
C) a consideration that will often be relevant to defining abnormality
D) distinct from considerations of psychological abnormality
E) a distraction from considerations of abnormality
,ANS: C
Diff: 2 Type: MC Page Ref: 6
Skill: Conceptual
9) Which one of the following groups of principles have been used to define abnormality?
A) diagnosis by an expert, personal distress, poor emotional control
B) personal distress, delinquent activity, poor emotional control
C) violation of norms, abnormal intellectual functioning, personal distress
D) infrequency, personal distress, impaired functioning
E) psychiatric diagnosis, harmful dysfunction, abnormal intellectual functioning
ANS: D
Diff: 2 Type: MC Page Ref: 7
Skill: Factual
10) Which is the most sensible way to logically combine the criteria used to define
psychological abnormality?
A) [infrequency OR personal distress] AND impaired functioning
B) [infrequency OR impaired functioning] AND personal distress
C) infrequency AND [personal distress OR impaired functioning]
D) infrequency AND personal distress AND impaired functioning
E) infrequency OR personal distress OR impaired functioning
ANS: C
Diff: 3 Type: MC Page Ref: 7
Skill: Application
11) Changes in the way that abnormality has been viewed over time has resulted in
A) a clear understanding of the etiology of disorders.
B) effective treatments for all disorders.
C) fewer diagnostic categories.
D) high reliability of all diagnoses.
E) a shift from supernatural to natural causes in explaining disorders.
ANS: E
Diff: 2 Type: MC Page Ref: 8
Skill: Conceptual
12) If you lived in a society that explained changes in the weather as being influenced by
the gods, you would likely view madness as being caused by
A) schizophrenia.
B) demon possession.
C) brain dysfunction.
D) weakness of character.
E) irrational thoughts.
ANS: B
Diff: 1 Type: MC Page Ref: 8
, Skill: Application
13) What type of treatment was thought to be used by Stone Age people to treat madness?
A) religious chanting
B) death
C) herbal brews to poison evil spirits
D) trephination
E) exorcism
ANS: D
Diff: 2 Type: MC Page Ref: 8
Skill: Application
14) Several methods were used during prehistoric times to treat abnormal behaviour. Which
approach, however, was NOT common?
A) trephination
B) bedrest
C) induced trances
D) special care in asylums
E) magic
ANS: D
Diff: 1 Type: MC Page Ref: 8-9
Skill: Factual
15) To whom can we credit with the original idea that dreams play an important role in
understanding mental illness?
A) Freud
B) Aristotle
C) Plato
D) Hippocrates
E) Galen
ANS: D
Diff: 2 Type: MC Page Ref: 9
Skill: Factual
16) Hippocrates played a major role in both how the causes and treatment of mental illness
were viewed. However, his greatest contribution to psychology was
A) being the father of psychoanalysis.
B) proving the value of leading a healthy life in preventing madness.
C) emphasizing the natural causes of mental illness.
D) separating the causes of madness into medical and magical causes.
E) his idea that psychological functioning resulted from disturbances of bodily fluids.
ANS: C
Diff: 1 Type: MC Page Ref: 9
Skill: Conceptual
Canadian Edition
Chapter 1 - Concepts of Abnormality throughout History
Multiple Choice Questions:
1) Your housemate has been overly concerned with keeping the kitchen clean. In fact, he
scrubs the sinks and counters for half an hour each time someone puts something on them.
In order to determine his diagnosis, a nurse in North America would be most likely to
consult the
A) American Medical Association's Treatment Manual (AMA-TM).
B) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, fourth edition (DSM-IV-TR).
C) International Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders (ICD-10).
D) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, sixth edition (DSM-VI).
E) The North American Guide to Psychiatric Disorders (NAPD-IV).
ANS: B
Diff: 1 Type: MC Page Ref: 2
Skill: Application
2) Psychopathology refers to
A) the same disorder as psychopathy.
B) disorders of the brain.
C) a physical cause to psychological problems.
D) only severe psychological disorders.
E) the study of the nature of psychological problems.
ANS: E
Diff: 2 Type: MC Page Ref: 4
Skill: Factual
3) According to the text, behavior, speech or thought that impairs a person’s functioning
corresponds best to which concept below?
A) mental illness
B) mental problem
C) brain pathology
D) psychological abnormality .
E) psychological disorder
ANS: D
Diff: 2 Type: MC Page Ref: 4
Skill: Conceptual
4) What is one difficulty in defining abnormal behaviour?
A) eccentric behaviour usually indicates abnormal behaviour
B) everyone is to some degree abnormal in their behaviour
C) unusual behaviour may not be abnormal according to diagnostic criteria
D) all people experience anxiety now and then
E) people's behaviour depends on the situation
,ANS: C
Diff: 1 Type: MC Page Ref: 4
Skill: Factual
5) Abnormal behaviour has been defined as that which occurs infrequently. Which of the
following examples illustrates a problem with this definition?
A) People with IQs below 70 are considered abnormal.
B) Most people get depressed from time to time.
C) Mathematical geniuses are considered rare in the population.
D) Children often believe in the existence of monsters.
E) Anxiety disorders are relatively rare in a given population.
ANS: C
Diff: 2 Type: MC Page Ref: 4
Skill: Application
6) Dr. Jayvonna is working with a patient who has to arrange and rearrange her food on her
plate after each bite. Although her patient does not find this behaviour strange, other people
find it odd. The definition of abnormality applicable to this patient is
A) statistically unusual behaviour.
B) violating the norms of society.
C) distress to self and others.
D) personal dysfunction.
E) expert diagnosis
ANS: B
Diff: 1 Type: MC Page Ref: 6
Skill: Application
7) Perhaps the biggest problem with using inappropriate behaviour as a criterion for
abnormal behaviour is
A) what is considered appropriate differs over time and location.
B) mentally ill people are usually not dangerous.
C) social norms tend to be constant over time.
D) inappropriate behaviour is often the norm in North American culture.
E) killers and murderers are generally sane.
ANS: A
Diff: 2 Type: MC Page Ref: 6
Skill: Conceptual
8) The authors discuss the Violation of Cultural Norms criterion as:
A) an essential and sufficient component in defining psychological abnormality
B) a necessary but not sufficient component of defining abnormality
C) a consideration that will often be relevant to defining abnormality
D) distinct from considerations of psychological abnormality
E) a distraction from considerations of abnormality
,ANS: C
Diff: 2 Type: MC Page Ref: 6
Skill: Conceptual
9) Which one of the following groups of principles have been used to define abnormality?
A) diagnosis by an expert, personal distress, poor emotional control
B) personal distress, delinquent activity, poor emotional control
C) violation of norms, abnormal intellectual functioning, personal distress
D) infrequency, personal distress, impaired functioning
E) psychiatric diagnosis, harmful dysfunction, abnormal intellectual functioning
ANS: D
Diff: 2 Type: MC Page Ref: 7
Skill: Factual
10) Which is the most sensible way to logically combine the criteria used to define
psychological abnormality?
A) [infrequency OR personal distress] AND impaired functioning
B) [infrequency OR impaired functioning] AND personal distress
C) infrequency AND [personal distress OR impaired functioning]
D) infrequency AND personal distress AND impaired functioning
E) infrequency OR personal distress OR impaired functioning
ANS: C
Diff: 3 Type: MC Page Ref: 7
Skill: Application
11) Changes in the way that abnormality has been viewed over time has resulted in
A) a clear understanding of the etiology of disorders.
B) effective treatments for all disorders.
C) fewer diagnostic categories.
D) high reliability of all diagnoses.
E) a shift from supernatural to natural causes in explaining disorders.
ANS: E
Diff: 2 Type: MC Page Ref: 8
Skill: Conceptual
12) If you lived in a society that explained changes in the weather as being influenced by
the gods, you would likely view madness as being caused by
A) schizophrenia.
B) demon possession.
C) brain dysfunction.
D) weakness of character.
E) irrational thoughts.
ANS: B
Diff: 1 Type: MC Page Ref: 8
, Skill: Application
13) What type of treatment was thought to be used by Stone Age people to treat madness?
A) religious chanting
B) death
C) herbal brews to poison evil spirits
D) trephination
E) exorcism
ANS: D
Diff: 2 Type: MC Page Ref: 8
Skill: Application
14) Several methods were used during prehistoric times to treat abnormal behaviour. Which
approach, however, was NOT common?
A) trephination
B) bedrest
C) induced trances
D) special care in asylums
E) magic
ANS: D
Diff: 1 Type: MC Page Ref: 8-9
Skill: Factual
15) To whom can we credit with the original idea that dreams play an important role in
understanding mental illness?
A) Freud
B) Aristotle
C) Plato
D) Hippocrates
E) Galen
ANS: D
Diff: 2 Type: MC Page Ref: 9
Skill: Factual
16) Hippocrates played a major role in both how the causes and treatment of mental illness
were viewed. However, his greatest contribution to psychology was
A) being the father of psychoanalysis.
B) proving the value of leading a healthy life in preventing madness.
C) emphasizing the natural causes of mental illness.
D) separating the causes of madness into medical and magical causes.
E) his idea that psychological functioning resulted from disturbances of bodily fluids.
ANS: C
Diff: 1 Type: MC Page Ref: 9
Skill: Conceptual
